i spoke for a couple weekends (out of 6!) for forest home’s junior high winter camp last month. and the “rules video” they made for the opening session totally cracked me up. i asked nate rice, the junior high director, if he could get it up on youtube after the last weekend, so i could share it with all of you. he graciously obliged. props to the video maker, whom i didn’t meet: jonathan neal. a great example of having fun with information that has to be shared.
that is great! If I wasn’t kicked out of camp I would have to make one.
I don’t think it is a regression. I think if you host your own video on your own site, then embed it, but not within a post. I think the ultimate solution would be a pop up video player from a link that wouldn’t interfere with the interface of the blog itself. One that I could open if I wanted to see the video and ignore if I didn’t want to see the video. I think videos are great for social networking and such, but putting them within a post instead of a link to the video is not necessarlity a step in the right direction. (even if it is 2.0)
i’m mostly just playin’ with ya and seeing if i can push your buttons. and, i agree, a pop-up would be nice. i don’t mind embedded vids, however — i actually like them, so i can stay where i am and not have to click through to another site.
what would the green lantern do? that’s the real question.
clearly, he would use his force of will – which is what i’m doing — to “power” his gift (in the green lantern’s case, his ring).
See, I keep a tabs in my browser so I can have a video loading behind the page that I clicked the link from. So it isn’t really a hassle at all to click a link for me. More than anything I find the embedded videos, especially from YouTube to be unpleasing to the eye.
Hey,
I’m glad you liked my video, and thanks for the compliments. I’m still making more, and I’m hosting a few on my site currently (including the Rules Video) @ http://www.jonathantneal.com/
Take care!
Jon